Ep. 120: Summer 2022 Circle Back with Catherine (@GilmoreGuide)
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
Sarah Dickinson
4.7 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 120, Catherine of Gilmore Guide to Books and I circle back to the books we shared in the Summer 2022 Book Preview — now that we've actually had a chance to read them. Returning to our 12 summer releases, we take a look at what worked and what didn't. Also, with both of our personal lives demanding more of our attention lately, our reading lives have definitely been impacted.
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Highlights
- Sarah had a 5 star book!
- Catherine and Sarah share their Summer 2022 reading stats and success rates.
- The best and worst picks from the Summer 2022 Book Preview.
Books We Read Before the Preview [6:38]
Sarah's Picks:
- The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger (July 5) | Amazon | Bookshop.org
[7:20]
- Dirt Creek by Hayley Scrivenor (August 2) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [9:27]
Summer 2022 Circle Back [6:38]
June
Sarah's Picks:
- These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany (June 7) | Amazon
- The Measure by Nikki Erlick (June 28) | Amazon
Catherine's Picks:
- Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley (June 7) | Amazon
- Tracy Flick Can't Win
by Tom Perrotta (June 7) | Amazon | Bookshop.org
- Girls They Write Songs About
July
Sarah's Picks:
- Crying in the Bathroom by Erika L. Sánchez (July 12) | Amazon
- The Work Wife by Alison B. Hart (July 19) | Amazon
Catherine's Picks:
- Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark (July 5) | Amazon | Bookshop.org[36:45]
- Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress (July 12) | Amazon
August
Catherine's Pick:
- Bookish People by Susan Coll (August 2) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [46:50]
Other Books Mentioned
- Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe [4:33]
- Corrections in Ink by Keri Blakinger [4:35]
- The Midcoast by Adam White [4:40]
- How to Fake It in Hollywood by Ava Wilder [4:42]
- The Gifted School
- Election
- The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta [22:02]
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus [23:38]
- Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett [23:42]
- The One by John Marrs [24:08]
- The Immortalists
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
- Finding Me by Viola Davis [36:05]
- The Ensemble
- Now Is Not the Time To Panic by Kevin Wilson (November 8, 2022) [46:15]
Other Links
About Catherine Gilmore
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Catherine started The Gilmore Guide to Books over 10 years ago after wrapping up a career as a corporate librarian. She loves books and reading (surprise!) and currently lives in Seattle, WA.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. I'm Sarah of Sarah's Bookshelves. Each week, I talk with a bookish |
| 0:15.4 | guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they do not love, and one new release |
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| 0:46.6 | lots of other goodies. There's also a link in the show notes and in my Instagram bio. Let's get rolling. |
| 0:53.3 | Welcome to the summer 2022 circleback episode, |
| 0:56.5 | where we share our thoughts on books that we shared in the summer preview now that we've |
| 1:01.8 | actually had a chance to read them. Catherine from Gilmore Guide to Books is joining me as usual. |
| 1:07.8 | Welcome back, Catherine. Thank you. Happy to be here. Both of us have sort of an interesting |
| 1:13.6 | experience with our summer preview books. Not the best experience, but interesting. So, |
| 1:19.6 | Catherine, tell me a little bit about your summer preview reading. And I guess reading in |
| 1:25.1 | general for you during your summer months. |
| 1:28.2 | I'm just going to call it bizarre and I feel safe in saying that every one of my reviews today has to be taken with a handful of salt. |
| 1:40.1 | Not a grain. |
| 1:41.2 | No, a grain is simply not enough because my head has not been in a reading space |
| 1:47.3 | this summer. So between moving across the country to living in a almost kind of scary hotel for |
| 1:55.5 | 10 days. The shining? Maybe. No, not haunted, just creepy. All of it resulted in enough disruption |
| 2:04.2 | that I'll be chuffed if I can get through this episode without calling you by the wrong name. |
| 2:10.8 | Okay, my brain is that. It's okay. I'll answer to most anything. Okay. Hey, you. What was working |
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